4th bedroom, dining room or small garage

handyman1970

Sorry, didnt mean im selling Just because I dont use the dining room, my mistake, and yes we have a drive for 2 cars, thanks

doraexplorer

on all the property programmes on tv , i always like the room they call the snug . couch tv games console and cushions. its just a nice name for a family room .

tyllwyd

Without seeing your house, I'd say put a smaller table in the kitchen to have that as a kitchen/breakfast room, and put the dining table in the other downstairs room. Then you have a three bedroom house with two reception rooms, nothing wrong with that.

If you were going to try to call it a garage, I wonder if you'd run into problems with building regs unless it was originally built as a garage. I don't think many people would be convinced if you tried to say its a four bedroom house.

lincroft1710

Barneysmom wrote: »

Don't turn it into another bedroom as the council tax will go up.

RUBBISH!!

I'm ex VOA, spent 12 yrs dealing with CT banding and appeals. The usage of individual rooms (excluding kitchen and bathroom) will not affect the CT band, it is still a 5 room property of x sq metres.

handyman1970

tyllwyd wrote:

''Without seeing your house, I'd say put a smaller table in the kitchen to have that as a kitchen/breakfast room, and put the dining table in the other downstairs room. Then you have a three bedroom house with two reception rooms, nothing wrong with that''

Thanks to all the replys so far, I greatly appreciate it, I think I may go with this as I believe it will give maximum effect when I market it


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sp1987

I would never buy or rent a house without a garage, so I would vote for the garage.

I know I may be in the minority, but useful to state as it gives you a fuller picture.

We personally require a garage for keeping my partner's belongings (e.g. oily car parts) and not neccessarily the car itself. A garage to me is 'stuff that isn't for the house', as much as for the car.

With that said, I would consider a house with an 'obvious' garage, ie a room with space for a garage door on the end of the house with driveway space in front. But the work involved with that (e.g. changing a dining room to a garage) compared to a house where I could just plonk down oily parts would be offputting if it wasn't a dream house.

sharkie

I'd promote it as a bedroom, as searches are done by number of bedrooms, as the search is for the minimum number of bedrooms, so will still show up if people are looking for less rooms

mummytofour

I would go for the bedroom or family room :-)

securityman

I would say Bedroom.

Salz

I wouldn't put bedroom in the main description - it annoys me when I see something listed as a 4 bed, then I look further into it and it is only 3 bedrooms upstairs. Main description should be 3 bed, but in the further description you could say family room/ bedroom.